I had forgotten how Christian, how Catholic the play is, and how much the glory that is sought is expected through death.
(How much of the glory depended on the specific actions of the government, and how much on the special circumstances of that era in Western history, is still debated; we debate the same thing here about the middle-class affluence of the Eisenhower-Kennedy years).
Failure is abject, but political victory doesn't bring much glory: odd how voters revere democracy, but revile its practitioners.
The film rights were reported as being auctioned last week, and Legendary probably paid a decent sum to win the glory, given how much hype the franchise is currently riding.
But Carrie and Anna have a hard time believing in his newfound glory, no matter how much he tries to convince them.
Sampras has not won a title since Wimbledon 2000, a drought of 17 tournaments, but he is beginning to show how much, at age 30, the Grand Slam glory still grips him.
I worked as a behind-the-scenes magician, penning content that helped CEOs and companies gain Internet fame and glory, all the while wondering how much I was selling out by giving away my byline.
He was urging on a young Bavarian, Bernhard Siegel, who was trying to guess from the plunking sound alone how much water was in a series of bottles, for glory, fleeting fame and the chance to win a brand-new car.
"Sprinkler" is an example of a Robo King level where your Katamari collects water and reinvigorates a desolate planet with plants, grass, flowers, etc. Scoring points is based on how much land you manage to restore to its former glory.
Connecting the surviving sketches with a kind of spacey orchestrational epoxy heavy on celesta, he offers a sense not only of the glories that remain but also of how much was devastatingly lost.
